How to replace HTC U11 cracked screen, charging port and battery

HTC U11 comes to us vision with Super LCD5 capacitive touchscreen, Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835, 64 GB/4 GB RAM or 128 GB/6 GB RAM. It has an IP67 rating and is dust, splash and water resistant up to 1 meter of freshwater for up to 30 minutes and tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Here we tear down the HTC U11 to show how to replace the cracked screen, charging port and battery. So without further ado, let’s start now.

Tools need:

Heat gun

Tweezers

Pry tools

Screw driver

Step 1 Turn off the phone and take out the SIM Card Tray

It is necessary to turn off the phone and take out the SIM card tray before the disassembly started.

Step 2 Remove the Back Housing

Heating the smartphone with the heat gun will make it easier to remove the back housing with pry tools.

Heat the backhousing with hot gun 1 pry the backhousing with metal tool 2

Pry the back housing with a pry tool and slide it around the edge.

use metal tool work around the edge screen 3 the backhousing is totall seperate 4

Step 3 Remove Wireless Charging Coil

Undo 5 screws on the wireless charging coil with a screw driver then you can remove the wireless charging coil.

undo 5 screws on wireless charging 5 take part the wireless charging 6

Step 4 Remove Battery

Release battery connector and then pry the battery with pry tools.

release battery connector 7 pry the battery with pry tool 8

Here is the battery.

Here is the battery 9

Step 5 Remove Motherboard

Undo the screw as shown below and release 8 connectors then you can take out the motherboard.

release this screw 10 release all connectors on motherboard 11 take part the motherboard 12

Step 6 Remove Cameras

Remove the front camera on the motherboard and the rear camera is on the back side.

take part the front camera 13 take part the rear camera 14

Step 7 Remove Loudspeaker and Charging Port

Undo 7 screws as the pic shown below with screw driver and take out the plastic cover.

undo 7 screws on the lauder speaker 15

Undo the screw on the charging port board

screw 1 screw on charging port 16

Take out the loudspeaker

loudspeaker

Release 5 connectors on the charging port board

release 5 connectors on charging port board 18

And now we can take out the charging port with tweezers.

take out the charging board with tweezers 19

Step 8 Remove Pressure Sensing Flex Cable

First, we should remove the plastic rod with pry tool and then we can take out the flex cable with tweezers

take out plastic 20 Here is the plastic 21 take part the pressure sensor cable with tweezers 22 take out flex cable 23

The screen assembly is hard to separate from the frame so the disassembly is finished now and if you have some other views and suggestions, welcome comments below.


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